The morning sun rose and we got up. Rosalie said while yawning, “Our new day starts now. Let’s go to the palace. I will recommend you to the head servant of the palace.” I nodded and motioned towards the bathroom where I prepared myself. A set of servant’s clothes, in this case maidservant’s clothes were prepared for me. After I finished changing, I waited for Rosalie to finish dressing. Finally, we go forth to the palace.
The first day of my job was quite tough. As soon as the introductions between me and my other colleague and the head maidservant, Mrs. Jessica whom we fellow maidservants used to call as Mrs. Dreadful. It was because she kept on nagging, complaining and scolding us. If you had ever made her displeased, she would surely make you pay.
It was already hard enough as my workload was quite heavy. Though I work together with Rosalie and another maidservant called Dahlia, we were still lack of people. At the beginning, we tidied the enormous kitchen. Next, we were told to do the laundry. It was an awful work to do as the laundry was in big quantities and when cloth is soaked its weight became heavier. At last, we finished the job and we were heading towards the spacious quarter where we dry the laundry.
Along the way we talked a little. “Oh my goodness! These works are too much for me. My back begins to feel sore. How about you Daphne? You are not used to do this kind of work, aren’t you? Your hands were so smooth.” Rosalie began. Now that she mentioned it, I feel that my hands started to ache. Dahlia looked concerned about me and said, “Are you all right? Should I help you?” I was really touched to hear a woman I’ve barely known offered to help me and when I think of Scarlett, only hopelessness came into my brain. Finally, I said, “I am all right. Let’s quickly finish of the task and go back.” In reply, both of them smiled and nodded.
Indeed, though I grew up with Ashley, I had never experienced this before. Back in my Kingdom, I was not allowed to do any chores except studying and strolling. At that time, I felt strange why I as a servant’s daughter was not allowed to work but Ashley always answered, “You will know who you are in the near future. So now, just do as I told you. I will never harm you which I swear. When I was 5 years old, Ashley told me everything about my identity which surprised me truly.
Suddenly, when I was flashing back my memories when I was still a child, I tripped onto something and all the laundries just flew away. “Ouch, it hurts.” I said but when I realized that I tripped onto a person’s leg, I added, “Who are you? What are you doing by sleeping here?” I was still rubbing my knees with my hands as when I tripped, I hit my knees badly. Soon, I realized that behind me, Dahlia’s face slowly turned pale. I was shocked and I asked her what happened. She pointed her finger towards the man I just tripped onto and when I saw it I was absolutely shocked.
“Daphne, you, you tripped onto the second prince of Ecrutia, Delvin.” Dahlia blurted. I stood up immediately and observed him. He was a prince with long blond hair. His complex was charming, looked a little alike with the crown prince, Damien. I couldn’t look into his eyes as he was sleeping so I slowly took the laundries which were scattered on the floor and just move away.
At the back, Dahlia shouted where was I going but at that time, it was wise to just go. I doubted that the second prince was sleeping as I felt that he was pretending to be. However, I couldn’t care less. I moved away and go back to wash my laundries once again.
About an hour passed and a servant from the crown prince’s room called the three of us. First, we were startled but we found it out quickly that the reason he wanted to meet us was to ask what happened back then with the second prince. Before going, I told Dahlia and Rosalie to just keep quiet as it was my fault. On the other hand Rosalie was excited the meet Damien once again. So we followed the servant into the crown prince’s quarters.
As we arrived, the crown prince dismissed all the servants and the ones who were left were the three of us. I thought that he will begin interrogating us but instead, he smiled and said, “Welcome back to the palace, Daphne and Rosalie. This should be Dahlia that is helping you. I’m pleased to meet you.”
Dahlia’s face was burning red and Rosalie kept on smiling continuously. I just stood there and said, “Thank you. I never thought that we would meet in this way.” He smiled amusingly and dismissed Rosalie and Daphne. He then said, “So this morning you’ve met with my brother? What is your first impression of him?” it felt a little awkward that he asked me this question. Nonetheless, I still answered, “I can’t say too much as that was the first time I met him. I feel that he is an intelligent man it’s just that he is lazy and he has hidden talent with him. When I saw his fingers, I saw some bruises in it. If I am not wrong he should be a good swordsman or perhaps archer and he was pretending to be asleep at that time.
After I said all that, Damien kept silent and a sound came from the door which separates his study room and sleeping room. The sound said, “Bravo, as expected as the girl my brother looked upon.” and slowly a figure appeared which was the second prince, Delvin. Hearing this, Damien told his brother to be quiet which he obeys unwillingly and he said to me, “You may go now, Daphne. If you can don’t mention this to anyone. This is our little secret.” I curtsied and left.
Before I closed the door completely, I could hear that Delvin was teasing Damien, “This is our little secret? You could just say that this was just an excuse to meet you. Hahahaha.” Irritated, Damien said, “Oh… just keep it shut, brother. You also pretended to be asleep just to see Daphne right. I am sorry that you can only see her for a little moment. I am more honest in love than you are.” So I closed the door completely, leaving the two brothers teasing each other.
By the time I got back, it was night time already and I was extremely exhausted so I decided to sleep. I shared a room together with Rosalie and Dahlia. After finished changing my clothes into pajama, I crawled into my bed as my leg couldn’t stand it anymore. Not long after I felt asleep and I didn’t get any nightmares. This was the best sleep I’d ever got in the last 2 weeks.
The next 3 weeks were like usual. Waking up early in the morning, I was doing chores together with Dahlia and Rosalie.
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